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April 08, 2016

By now I'm sure you've heard of the Panama Papers: a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents that provide detailed information about more than 214,000 offshore companies listed by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, including the identities of shareholders and directors of the companies.

The documents show how wealthy individuals, including public officials, hide their money from public scrutiny. At the time of publication, the papers identified five then-heads of state or government leaders from Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates; as well as government officials, close relatives, and close associates of various heads of government of more than forty other countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Syria, and the United Kingdom.

Iceland's Prime Minister has resigned. Britain's Prime Minister is having to explain how his family is connected to it. The names of hundreds of Americans have surfaced in the Panama Papers.

All because someone did not keep their WordPress website up to date.

Post-mortem analysis found that the hackers got in via a well-known vulnerability in an out-of-date version of a popular WordPress plugin named "Slider Revolution". The plugin's authors updated the plugin two years ago and eliminated the vulnerability, but the newer version was never installed on the 'target' website.

We offer a service whereby we keep your WordPress and plugins up-to-date, along with several other activities designed to keep you safe. Yes, it's expensive, but much less expensive than seeing your client's name and data plastered all over the front page of every major newspaper in the world.

January 05, 2011

We want you empowered and in control. Every website and blog we deliver includes one-on-one personal training so that you are in charge and in control of your online presence. Not only that, we provide you with an owner's manual containing illustrated step-by-step instructions for updating and maintaining your site.
You're not stuck trying to remember what we taught you a year ago. You're not stuck trying to decipher your months-old notes. You're not dependent upon someone else to make the updates for you. You are in control.

Customized to Your Website or Blog

Almost every website and blog we build is custom. Your owner's manual is custom too. We start with our standard content that is common to every site and then write specific instructions for the functions and features specific to your own website or blog.

Prefer Video?

We've got you covered. We include our own custom WordPress plugin to the Admin Panel containing all the same step-by-step instructions in video form.

August 25, 2010

"I have a Facebook account and I'm on Twitter but I just don't seem to be getting anywhere."

One of the things that has always differentiated us from other social media experts is our emphasis on the fundamentals of marketing. The landscape is crowded with people who will set up a website or blog for you pretty inexpensively (it is my opinion however that the blogs and websites we build give you a much more polished and professional appearance). And there are lots of people claiming to be social media experts.

None of them do what we do:

We teach you to think like a social media-savvy marketer.

We create confident and empowered social media-savvy business owners.

Our clients tell us that while we excel at delivering polished blogs, fan pages, twitter profile pages, and social media-enabled websites, our strength lies in our ability to teach you to be effective with social media.

As a result, we've once again boosted the educational/training aspect of our flagship offering. We're spending even more time with you now. By the time we complete a 4-6 week engagement with you, together we will have created a social media strategy and roadmap for you. And spent enough one-on-one time with you so that you feel confident and empowered to be in-charge and in control of your own social media destiny.

Of course, all this one-on-one personal attention means that we're a little more expensive than we used to be (but still a lot cheaper than you would think). If you are looking for a social media firm that makes you feel more like you are in Nordstroms or Nieman-Marcus than Target or Wal-Mart, I invite you to give me a call.

June 06, 2010

We're providing an exciting new service to clients for whom we set up a Wordpress-based blog or website. I've written a Wordpress plugin that adds "WP Help Videos" to the Admin Panel. Clicking on it displays a list of video tutorials designed to help you through the most common tasks.

While there is a lot of commonality in every Wordpress-based site, we go the extra mile by providing several tutorials that are specific to that client and blog or website.

For example, the site we creating for a recent client had a photo rotation on the front page. I created a video tutorial for her that explained exactly how to administer this function.

Our mantra at Business Blogging Pros is to provide a very personalized 'lead-you-by-the-hand' service that also leaves you fully empowered and in control at the completion of our engagement. This new Wordpress plugin is just one more way we achieve that.

Note: this plugin is not available separately. It's available only as a part of our gold-level (and above) Blog/Website Setup clients.

September 30, 2009

The new TypePad interface is a great improvement, but when I saw it for the first time I knew I had to write Guide to the New TypePad.

If you are a business owner who has been using TypePad for a while, the new interface will come as a shock. I can just hear you saying, "I have to learn it all over again".

If you are new to TypePad - particularly of you have just come from another blogging platform - you are probably playing 'scavenger hunt' while you find everything.

Step-by-step instructions for just about everything you want to do are in Guide to the New TypePad. I know because I've spent the last four years helping business owners get started blogging on TypePad and answering their "How do I..." questions.

Topics Covered:

Logging In

Creating a new post

Formatting text

Composing in MS-Word

How to include a photo or hyperlink in your post

How to embed a YouTube video in a post

Posting Status - Publish Now or Later

Featuring a post

Technorati Tags

Trackbacks

Controlling Comment and Trackback Functions

Editing Previously Created Posts

Stats

Uncovering search terms used to get to your blog

Comments

Creating and Editing Pages

Navigation Bar

Managing Sidebar Content

Adding a Badge or Other Custom Sidebar Content

Typelists

Connecting your blog to Twitter

Connecting your blog to Facebook

How to create Landing Pages using your TypePad blog

How to map a domain name to your landing page

This is not a PDF! This is a 48-page plasticoil bound book.

Guide to the New TypePad

$39

Including Shipping

Save Hours of your Precious Time

You know how frustrating it is to know exactly what you want to do but can't figure out how to make the software do it. Guide to the New Typepad will save you many times its price in terms of your valuable time.

Blogging is Supposed to be Fun and Easy!

GUide to the New Typepad will save you hours of learning and tons of frustration. Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions will have you navigating TypePad like a seasoned master in just a few minutes.

December 08, 2008

Now more than ever, you need to create an authentic relationship with your present and future customers that is based upon a solid understanding of the realities they face and how they want to do business with you.

Nothing is Better For that than a Blog

Have you heard of blogs and wonder what they are all about?

Are you wondering if a blog could help your business?

Do you want to be known as an authority in your field?

Do you want to leverage the most cost-effective means for boosting your business’ image, exposure, brand, reputation, and revenue?

Come to this seminar and find out

Blogging has evolved into a cutting-edge marketing tool that is immediate, personal, and engaging. Blogging can boost your image, exposure, reputation, and revenue. Best of all blogging is within the financial reach of everyone.

Done well, a small company can achieve results that large firms with millions of dollars to spend on marketing would be hard-pressed to achieve.

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Dave Barnhart

A recognized thought leader and social media marketing consultant in Phoenix, AZ with clients all over the USA. Dave is not a Johnny-come-lately to social media: he is the founder of Business Blogging Pros, one of the oldest social media marketing firms in Arizona. Dave has helped countless business owners effectively leverage social media to grow their businesses.